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Now as by all consent, the Life of reasonable man is better then the vegetable of plants, or sensitive of beasts; so the health of man must needs be more precious: and as that virtue excels in goodness, so doth the defect exceed in miserableness. Respect man distinctively, as he is a Body only, and then to be sick, and die are common to him with plants and beasts; and what suffering is there in the one, more then in the other, save that as the Beast is more sensible of pain then the tree; so man is more apprehensive then the beast, the bodies of all return to the earth. But man hath a soul, wherein his reason is placed; which fainting or sickening through sin, or the punishment for sin, there is offered a passion and grief, whereof the other are not capable. Death to the rest is not so terrible, as this sickness. The goodlier the building is, the more lamentable the ruin.

Now as by all consent, the Life of reasonable man is better then the vegetable of plants, or sensitiue of beasts; so the health of man must needes be more precious: and as that vertue excels in goodnesse, so doth the defect exceede in miserablenesse. Respect man distinctiuly, as hee is a Body onely, and then to bee sicke, and die are common to him with plants and beastes; and what suffering is there in the one, more then in the other, saue that as the Beast is more sensible of paine then the tree; so man is more apprehensiue then the beast, the bodies of all returne to the earth. But man hath a soule, wherein his reason is placed; which fainting or sickening through sinne, or the punishment for sinne, there is offered a passion and griefe, whereof the other are not capable. Death to the rest is not so terrible, as this sickenesse. The goodlier the building is, the more lamentable the ruine.

2 Particularly, This will best appear, if we single out some special disease, and confer the perplexity it can offer to the body, with the sickness of the soul. Take for instance, the plague of the Leprosy. It was a fearful and unsupportable sickness, every way miserable, as you may find it described, Levit. 13. &c. ver. 45.46. His clothes shall be rent,